Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richardson's announcement ended weeks of speculation that he would join the slew of politicians hoping to replace Tsongas...
Then the President met with congressional Republicans and urged them to assail the Democrats as the high-tax party. Democrats, for their part, agreed reluctantly to join a budget-cutting conference while gloomily predicting that Reagan was trying to inveigle them into giving a bipartisan blessing to gargantuan deficits, or set them up as scapegoats, or both. As a kind of grace note to the babble, one of the President's top economic advisers, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, derided the analysis of another, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Martin Feldstein, as ivory-tower dreaming. Said Regan, once chief...
...press secretary Maxine Isaacs after a blur of indistinguishable events: "We regulars have had our excitement threshold lowered." Like the White House beat, to which it is often a steppingstone, campaign coverage is one of the most coveted and also one of the most confining of assignments. Reporters frequently join the candidate at dawn and may touch down in three or four states before hitting the next hotel bed at midnight. Traveling journalists, like other clients of arranged tours, tend to rehash the details of the day's events, or fret about mediocre food, lack of sleep or insufficient...
...which portrayed many campaign reporters as engaging in passive, unimaginative "pack journalism," major news organizations have searched for other ways to cover the candidates. For this primary season, the Washington Post has switched from "man-to-man" to "zone" coverage: reporters are assigned to regions of the country, and join up with each candidate in succession as he travels through. The Post's Martin Schram, a veteran of the past four campaigns, takes that approach a step further: whenever possible he rents a car, rather than travel in what he calls "the steel cocoon." He explains, "The reporter...
...took odd jobs in journalism, advertising and public relations. He was, in retrospect, simply waiting for Harold Ross to dream up The New Yorker. Nine weeks after the inaugural issue appeared in February 1925, the first of thousands of White contributions graced its pages. When he was invited to join the magazine's staff, his interviewer was Ross's assistant, Katharine Angell. She was seven years older than White, and a mother of two children who was growing dissatisfied with her marriage. She and White fell in love, married and lived happily together for nearly 50 years, until...